The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Monday December 25 - Christmas Edition

Episode Date: December 25, 2023

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Nor is that more true than when it comes to climate. Every economy around this table faces this challenge, every one of us. And as I've said before, it's the only existential threat to humanity. We either get this right or there's not going to be a whole lot of people around to talk about it. Does his mouth not work? That's the president saying the weather's going to kill us all, kill us all dead. Dana last year with you, top of this third hour. I don't care about the weather right now.

Can we have a conversation about what the hell is going down at Target? First off, welcome back to the program. Dana last year with you, can listen coast to coast, can stream the radio program. You can watch the simulcast, YouTube, Facebook, channel 347 direct TV. Guys, I haven't been in a target. And I don't know how long.

Not just because I just, there's nothing I ever need there. I just don't go there. but um what what what what what what what's happening here so i saw how do i say this they have gay nutcrackers now steve's response was that was a tuesday and it took me a second uh but they have those and they they have apparently gay christmas decorations i mean how much of an annoying virtue signal are you, that you have to put some sort of tangible

representation of how you get it on on your tree? Well, I wouldn't have known how you had sex if you didn't have that gay Santa ornament on your tree. I mean, or the gay nutcracker. Wow, I wouldn't know that you how you like to have sex if you didn't have that gay

nutcracker. Why? Why does everything have to just, they do, they have these. I mean, it's the most, it is a joke by itself. This was not done to be humorous. They did this on purpose, like accidentally on purpose. So they have these, my, and for the people on the left who read with pictures, what we're making fun of is the fact that they feel the need to seek validation in Christmas ornaments.

I love to celebrate birth my savior by declaring how I have to sex. So basically, you're celebrating the birth of a savior with fornication. That's essentially what I am to understand out of this. That's correct, Kane, right? Yeah. Celebrating holiness with fornications. Like, scrim for chastity, guys. Doesn't make any sense.

But I digress. Do you constantly have to tell people who you are all the time with everything? What is the point of this? Does your blood type change? Do you have purple blood now? Does something in your Does something in you change because of your preferences In a private activity

Why do you have to have this all the time everywhere? The regular nutcracker wasn't good enough The regular Santa wasn't good enough You couldn't just have regular ornaments You gotta have gay ornaments Yeah I don't I guess they put rainbows on it They're like look, to da-da, no it's gay I don't know

I don't know They also, I don't know how to address this one. Because it's so over the top. We're making fun of it. And there's a difference between making fun of something and criticizing it. We just think it's ridiculously hysterical, no pun intended. It is hysterical. I mean, I just don't understand why.

And I was looking on that. They literally have a whole category of alphabet. They have alphabet Christmas decorations. They have alphabet Christmas deals. LGBT. They don't have any cue on there. Ryan. I mean, I don't understand this.

Why? Why does it, I don't understand. Is this being inclusive? Of what? Of the gay community? So you're telling me that unless Santa is decked out like Liberace in rainbows, that he's hostile? I don't know about that. Is that what the claim is?

I don't know. I just, if I was Santa, I ain't nobody would be getting crap this year. Wait, are this? Except dictionaries and bibles, because a lot of, lot of people need it. Are they saying that regular ornaments are hostile? Apparently, they needed special gay ones. They didn't feel represented.

You know, the reindeer with the red nose wasn't represented of how, you know, oh man. Help me out here, Kay. If Rudolph changed his gender, he could dominate all the female reindeer games. Right, exactly. I just I mean when I get our Christmas ornaments I have like we have my mom is one of those people

who's like you don't put ornaments on the train list it's like a keepsake and I'm like all right so all of ours you know mean something either the kids made them or it was from when we were kids something like that and I just can't you know I was looking at like a Santa he was used to being felt but over the years it just kind of worn

off but I just can't imagine looking at that and being thinking and going you know quietly whispering, why do you hate gay people to my Santa ornament, you know? I'd put these ornaments up, but I think they hate to gays. So they have a whole rainbow section, but not to be outdone, because, you know, what's Christmas without exuberant virtue signaling from every single aspect of humanity? There's a Santa on wheels. I don't care. I just think, like, why was this necessary before? Did it really ever bother anybody before?

that there wasn't a Santa in a wheelchair? No, it would make the story of him coming down the chimney a lot less believable. That's what I'm saying. I hate you. Can we not? This is your fault. Oh, my gosh. I just, I don't understand why the need to go that hardcore, right?

Do you see me out there like, where's my sana with guns? I got to have my sana with guns out over him. You know, I'm not out there demanding that. I'm not asking, you know, for like a dead reindeer, a slung over his shoulder and a hunting rifle over the other. I don't insist on a Mexican Santa. Yeah, you don't have a sombrero Santa. That's right. Damn that.

They hate you. If it's not on the shelf, they hate you. Yep. That's what it is. It's oppression. That's what it is. Yeah, it's actual oppression. Slavery, actually.

Because you don't have a sombrero. It's Hitlerism. Fashism. Completely. I just, I, I, I, I just, why the constant, never-ending virtue. It's so cringe. Stop it. You don't have to have rainbow everything.

You don't have to have, I mean, it just, because it seems contrived and it, and it seems like it's put on. I mean, you're making cheap crap in China and slapping rainbows on it, you know, where they would kill you for being gay. and they're acting like that's like somehow supportive of the alphabet community. I mean, the irony is so insane. And there are people who are just like, oh, yeah, I love that. So I'm going to get my gay ornaments.

Get my gay ornaments at the targets. I don't know. I'm telling you what. Santa's just bringing everybody Bibles and dictionaries. It's all anybody gets to see her. Martha Stewart says she's not doing turkey. She said she's turkeyed out. she says that she's sick of cooking

she's done she'd made 14 turkeys already for a TV show this year she says she's turkied out is that legal no arrest her throw her back in jail and my administration I'd arrest her for throwing for being turkied out you don't get to be

turkied out in America by the way your friendly reminder to put your turkey in your fridge you're welcome yeah your frozen turkey put it in your fridge so I have some other serious news too but I'm just I was completely distracted by the gay ornaments. Oh, and then, of course, you have the stories that are like,

there's backlash from people about the gay ornaments. Do you think people are getting boycott fatigue? I mean, I don't necessarily boycott. I just don't want to be somewhere that's cringe in the event that it's catching, you know? I just don't go there just because it's gross or it's cringe or something. But I just do, I do wonder if people are getting. getting boycott burnout, which you can't, really. But, you know, for, I mean, for this stuff, I just, it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense to me. But the

stories that have been written on this are, oh, people are, there's backlash. It's not backlash. People are making fun of it. The left can't even, you, if you can't make fun of yourself for this, then you're truly a shell of a human because it is hysterical. All the, to have a whole section of gay ornaments is just hysterical. It is the most commercial thing I could ever think of. It is hysterical and you should be laughing about it because it's funny. But they're like, there's backlash. No, we're like, Target really's having one.

They really outdid themselves this year. That's what the response has been. Good grief. There's so many jokes to be made here, particularly. with the nutcrackers, but I digress. Speaking of band, all the things. So pink, you've never seen Pink and Eddie Azard

in the same room. I'm not going to be too ignorant because her husband's a big two-a guy. And that's cool. But I don't understand the band book thing. She's like, I'm getting around the band books. She says she's giving away band books. And she's got a couple of shows in Florida. And she said that she's going to be giving away

banned books. how are you giving them away in Florida if they're banned? I mean if they're banned that means you can't even give them away how are you getting oh you mean it's because they're not banned I mean it's crazy to think

that you know it's bad for parents to just want to know if you're showing their third grader a graphic novel of prepubescent teenage boys pegging each other oh I said it

Hey, if that makes people uncomfortable, me saying that on air, it should make you super uncomfortable that it was available for elementary kids to read and junior high. Yeah, it should make you super uncomfortable. If it's not appropriate for me to talk about it on air, it should make you super uncomfortable that legit kids in classrooms. I know actual parents, like in real space off air, offline, whose kids literally pulled that off of bookshelves in Texas, one school down the straight from where I am. No joke. I actually saw the book in person with the library sticker on it and everything. So that happened. That wasn't just like, that wasn't anecdotal.

That happened. I had the book of my hand. I'm like, oh my gosh. And they had the checkout thing and everything. The digital scan thing on the book, everything. Because it was in the library. So that's one of the books on the list that she wants to give out. Would she let her kids read that?

Curious. Would she let her kids read? read that. Because I seriously doubt she would. I doubt her husband would. But I just think this is stuff that you should know if you're going to throw yourself all thirsty like, seeking fame, into the debate. You should know that this is what is in the book. It's not, people aren't banning them.

This isn't like what the left was doing to Huckleberry Finn, by the way. They actually banned that book. That book you could not, you can't, you can't get in the, they banned it in a number of schools, like actually prohibited it. This wasn't, we need to have parental consent because. of appropriateness for age. This was get it out of there entirely. This, parents didn't even say ban them.

They said, can we actually have a discussion about what we're allowing our kids to read and what you're introducing in the classroom for kids to read before you introduce it to them? For crying out loud, when I was a kid, my mom had to sign at some point, I think I was in like six or seventh grade. At some point, I had to take a permission slip home for my mom to sign for her to say it was okay for us to sing Christmas carols in school. She had to sign a thing saying that it was okay for me to sing songs of a religious nature in school. She actually had to sign that,

but this stuff, you can just show to kids. I mean, we were literally singing like a way in a manger for crying out loud. And she had to sign off on that. But this kind of stuff, that's why I think it's all, all these people like pink and everybody else, this is so performative. They're not banned. I mean, what you're, what you're railing against is parental consent. And I thought that consent was something that the left liked. You know, they really don't. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So Nepal ban's TikTok citing disruption to its social harmony in a piece out from the BBC. They say that Nepal's banned the Chinese own app because its content was detrimental to social harmony. They're pretty

hardcore about that stuff. The decision comes days after they introduced a new rule requiring social media firms to set up liaison offices within the country. And India has also banned TikTok. They have about a billion monthly users for the app in total. Montana's the first state to ban it. UK banned it from its

network earlier this year also. Farms that are looking, they're looking for pumpkins after Halloween for animals to eat because they love them. And I can attest to this because I have a friend who is goats out in Colorado and she got a whole bunch of pumpkins that a store gave her after Halloween and the goats went crazy for them. They're just like the stuff that's not the freshest and but goats and pigs, all kinds of stuff.

If you have undecorated pumpkins, everyone's like, don't throw them out because a lot of farms would love the pumpkins as a treat for their animals. And that's what they're telling everybody. Like pigs love it, goats love it. Everybody loves it. And they said that the animals know that it's a special treat and it's like candy for them. And it's a way to get rid of your old pumpkins without, you know, just throwing them away. Because otherwise they'd have to. they would, you know, they don't get them because they'd have to buy them. And that can be a lot for those animals. A Springfield man is charged for kidnapping a woman at chainsaw point in the Ozarks, Springfield, Missouri.

Charges were filed against a man for allegedly kidnapped a woman at chainsaw point. Like by chainsaw. Roy Flores is charged with kidnapping first-degree burglary and unlawful use of a weapon. They see the incident happened earlier this spring. And he forced his way into a home with a chainsaw. kidnapped her, also threatened to burn the house down. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us.

I'm not going to be endorsing President Trump, obviously. I've made that very clear. Look, Chris Christie has done a terrific job so far. I think his being in the race has kept Donald Trump from coming to the debates. Because I think Donald Trump recognized if he went to the debate with Chris Christie, Chris Christie would reveal him for what he was, and Trump would be badly hurt, so he stayed out. but Nikki Haley, she's rising. Right now, I think she's the only one that has a shot

becoming the nominee other than President Trump. It's a long shot in her part, but she's the one that has a shot. He really doesn't like DeSantis. He hates DeSantis Mitt Romney. Keep in mind, DeSantis was one of the House Freedom Caucus guys who came out of the Tea Party. And he went against Boehner and all those guys. And Mitt Romney was running in 2012

because I was right there and all of it. He was highly critical of all that stuff. And he never, never created a good relationship between himself and those cats. So, yeah, that man keeps a grudge. That man holds a grudge. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, bottom of this first hour. He's also wrong.

But there's a system in play. I want to be really honest with you about the Iowa polls because there's an NBC poll that came out. Now, maybe you'll like what I say. Maybe you're not going to like what I say. I'm going to tell you what it is, what I think, I'm going to give you insight, not opinion on this kind of stuff. Because my dream, I want to win in 2024. I will literally, I will, I will, I don't know, I will riot. I don't know.

I want to win badly in 2024 to the point where people who are being stupid and like the leadership of the RNC and create a very frustrating obstacle, you know, I feel like that's, that's exactly what it is. It's an obstacle. I have issues with that. And I think we really, that's something we got a deep dive on coming up at some point. But I want to win in 2024. And I am very, very concerned because I feel like a lot of people are being baited and played. They're being baited and played hardcore. Now, this new poll that came out, I was looking at it. Let me let me just tell you. So Iowa, if you don't understand, let me lay it down. You've early states that have their primaries and caucuses, right? And those states ultimately determine after a candidate goes through that rush, right? After they rush those early states, after that, then you kind of have, you know, at least a frontrunner for the nomination for candidacy. And that's why I always say it's a delegate race in the very beginning. And that's all they're focused on. And Iowa is the first state. Now, people who win the Iowa caucus don't always necessarily.

go on to win the presidency. I mean, for crying out loud, Ted Cruz has won the Iowa caucus before. I mean, there's a long, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a lot of examples of people winning the caucus, but yet not, not winning the presidency. This election is a little different. And I think because everything that, I think it's, it's, it's, there's a lot of dynamics that have changed. One thing that hasn't changed is the sucky state of polling.

One thing that you have to realize, excuse me, and this is perhaps, it's, it's perhaps one of the most important things to recognize in politics right now is that polling is an industry. Much like you have lobbying as an industry, polling is in itself very similar. It is its own industry. There are two few very scientifically based polling firms. And then when you even look at aggregates, a lot of the aggregation will exclude like state polls or this type of poll or that poll and they all have their own certain rules for inclusion. Everyone is competing to be kind of like the standard, right, the gold standard. Everybody competes. But there isn't really a firm that is the gold standard. That's why they're so completely unreliable. You can

have candidates that hire firms to do surveys and then they will use that as a way to set narratives. And the media loves to cite, well, this survey says, well, this survey says they like to cite it Like it's just absolutely unquestionable scientific data. And that's not the case. The polls were wrong. I mean, the polls were wrong in 2016. That's where you got the whole silent majority that came out of that. The polls were wrong in 2016, guys.

The polls were wrong in 2018, guys. The polls were wrong in 2020, guys. The polls were wrong in 2022, guys. At what point, when the hell did we start believing in polls? When? There were a few polls that were correct going into 2020 that didn't show a red wave. And they were smaller, they were from less known firms, and they didn't get a lot of attention. And they had small sample sizes, and I get it.

It's a little tough to do that. You also have to, there was this big narrative of red wave in 2020 that did not manifest. And then you also had this problem of split ticket voting that was developing, beginning in 2018 and then really exploded in 2020 that Republicans don't know how to deal with. They don't talk to their voters about. And because Republicans, the Republican Party doesn't know how to deal with it and they don't talk to their voters about it, they encourage the voters to accept that the presence of split ticket voting and the inability to explain the results of that somehow means the existence of absolute undeniable fraud to the point where it can change the outcome

of an election. now there's it is a real thing and it's something that the rnc is garbage at dealing with and they've had since 2018 to deal with us now split ticket voting is when like in texas we this just changed in texas like we used to have uh one ticket no we don't have that anymore uh that was a court battle and and in texas that's changed i noted that back in 2020 and this is a kind of a result of that. You don't have any straight ticket voting in Texas anymore. And after you got, after you eliminated straight ticket voting in Texas in 2020, you ended up having John Cornyn, senator, who got more votes than Donald Trump in Texas. And Texas is considered a

red state, correct? I live in the most conservative district in the state. And I was looking at actual hard data. I had was getting numbers from the Secretary of State's website. I was talking to independent pollsters, people who were working elections, all this stuff. And a lot of people say, well, it's fraud, it's fraud. Now, there is fraud. Don't get me wrong. The question has always been, is it enough to change the outcome of a very decentralized election designed specifically to prevent that kind of outcome. And in Texas, the result of John Cornyn, who is a very moderate Republican, getting more votes than Donald Trump is a result of split ticket voting, not fraud. That's only part of the reason. The second part is voter turnout. Republicans are their own

worst enemies when it comes to voting. There are more Republicans than there are Democrats in a number of different states. Like in Georgia, the reason we lost that special election in the Senate is because Republicans didn't show up. Now, I know the unpopular thing that politicians are told, never do this, never blame the voters, never talk about the voters. The voters are to be, we're all to be treated like precious little babies, right? We're all, we're not precious. And you have to take accountability for the future of your own country. I literally know people. I have family in Georgia that didn't vote. I found that out quite by accident. I was like, what? you're a registered Republican.

There were a lot of Republicans that didn't, like a million of them. There were a lot. Republicans are their own worst enemy when it comes to voting. The turnout, if even 75% of the Republicans turned out to vote every election, the turnout would be such

that it would overwhelm any kind of decentralized shenanigans. But we're not seeing that. That's not the case. Now, in Texas, like I said, you had split-ticket voting. You had people who voted Republican down-ticket, but at the top they either didn't vote, they voted for somebody else or they did a right in.

That's what happened in Texas with Trump is that split ticket voting. The Republican Party, again, we saw this coming up in 2018 in a number of different states and the Republican Party had no answer for it. They still have no answer for it. How do you deal with that? And then secondly, it causes people to have a conversation that they do not want to have. Why did people vote that way? Now, if you even engage in this conversation, political operatives have trained you to think that that is a betrayal.

And there are political operatives on the right. And the reason I'm calling it out is because I view them as an obstruction to victory in 2024. When you as a party cannot sit down without emotions like the left and have an honest conversation about why you're trailing here or why split ticket voting is suddenly a major issue for your party or why we're having these issues, how can we strengthen our soft spots? How can we harden those? And how can we clear a path to victory?

When your party is too afraid to have that conversation because they don't want to tick off other people in the party, that is a problem. That is a bigger threat to victory in 2024 than Democrats. The Republican Party is scared of its own damn shadow, and that is more powerful than anything that the Democrats could do. You have the RNC leader who doesn't want to do anything because the RNC leader got their job because of a politician. So they can't be honest about it. I want to win in 24 and I don't give a hot damn with whom. I have my preference in the primary. I will not apologize for being an American and living in a country where we have a republic-style election system that uses a democratic process and we enjoy freedoms that people have fought and died for.

I will never apologize for that. We don't live in a monarchy. We have a republic. But I want to win in 24. But I also want to do everything I can in the meantime to make sure that it is an absolutely rock solid ticket in 2024. And this is where we're getting into the polling. In 2022, the red wave never materialized. Virginia, remember how I said a few weeks ago, the election of Virginia,

was a bellwether. Everyone thought that Republicans were going to take the House of Delegates and they were going to take the Senate and you had Yonkin as a governor. And I'd said that, well, Republicans really, if you look at the polling, they had actually overperformed in the previous selection due to COVID and a lot of the stuff in the schools because that was one of the ground zero places. And that the way that the election happened recently is a little bit more in tune with the voter makeup there. And then also you had redistricting, which really didn't go in a Republican's favor. But I said Virginia was a bellwether. You had a couple of other elections where it was thought that Republicans were going to perform well

and they underperformed. People, the Republican Party is leading you wrong. And they're afraid to say anything because they don't want to make candidates mad. They don't want to make the former president mad. They don't want to make Republican operatives mad because it's been, it's become a popularity contest instead of a party of leadership. You have more people who, I mean, I don't dislike Rana, Romney McDaniel. I don't. I've met her in person, but this is about the business of the country. So my saying is that this is show business, not show friends.

And the business of the country is telling me right now that R&C leadership is failing. And no one is willing to stand up and say, okay, knock this stuff off. Can I do a case in point? You're going to get mad at me, but I got to say it. I saw a tweet. it was something that the president had put out and he had said that

I thought it was kind of interesting because he was kind of going after I guess Cruz and Holly Josh Holly and Missouri saying that oh their primaries could get very very interesting it's what he had posted on his platform and then there's an account on Twitter or X that repost that stuff that Trump posts on his platform basically it's Trump's saber rattling

he's mad that he doesn't have an endorsement from Ted Cruz or Josh Holly yet. I don't think that you can threaten a Republican candidate in a primary in a state that you lost the most conservative district by 2,000 votes. Ted Cruz lost the district I live in, lost the county I live in by 2,000 votes to Beto O'Rourke. It's the most conservative county in the state, and Ted Cruz lost it. the problem is bigger than that. And I don't think that Trump can threaten primaries against Senate candidates or senators for not endorsing him if he couldn't even carry the state against John Cornyn. I'm saying that to say in 2024, I want to win and I don't want candidates making mistakes for themselves.

I don't want them making problems for themselves that they're going to have difficulty in getting over later. I don't give a hot damn about someone's ego. I don't care about kissing their butt. I want to win in 2024 because I firmly believe that this is it. I'm not saying that for radio. I'm not saying that for clicks.

This is it, guys. You will never be able to claw back. The country will be irrevocably changed. Freedom once lost is lost forever. We have a lot more on the polling of this and a lot more to come. But I'm telling you, people got to get over the emotions of this.

If you want to win in 24, we have to have serious conversations, and we've got to be generals, not soap opera stars. Like Sands Through the Hourglass, so are the days of the United States. And all the studies show, by the way, people get from point A to point B faster on a train than their car, they take the train. They take the train. People get from point A to point B faster on a train than their car. They take the train? What? There's a lot here.

This is when he was in, this is when he was in Vegas pitching his billions of dollars for the rail system. I, Yeah, go ahead. We're, you're just dying over there. He has a, we know now. He has trouble with numbers. and transportation are you sure are we sure is it just is it just such a large number that it's difficult for us to it is a super large go ahead go ahead play play play that number again

four years of instruction week over a billion 300 million trillion 300 million dollars was he trying to be funny or did he just like no did he short circuit or he just isn't very bright I don't know man. It gives you all the confidence in the world, doesn't it? All the confidence in the world. Yeah, he's just a puppet. All right, so coming up in our second hour, we've got a lot of stuff to hit

still, because we're getting you set up this week. On deck, the latest, we've got, the latest with Israel, and how Hamas is threatening to execute hostages. And a ton of different college or university presidents are

stepping down. We're going to talk about that. We're going to, also, continue our conversation on polling. So we we were establishing some things just last segment. We got some new stuff to hit regarding polling, Iowa, the primary, and 2024. Stick with us a lot more on the way. Ask the folks of Toyota, which last week announced it would significantly finally increase wages for their workers. Thanks for you had no choice. They had no choice because of what you put did. You helped everybody. And look, and I want to

Thank you for your commitment to the solidarity for exercising your right to bargain collectively. You made this happen. And, no, by the way, it's a bigger thing I think even you all realize. You change in the face of the country. The guy goes, thanks. Oh, my gosh. God bless America. That's POTUS.

Welcome back. I'm in a weird mood, dude. Top of the top of the second hour. on this Friday, yet another day that Kane hasn't gotten Warhammer to squat up. Top of the second hour. It's all right. It's all right. Yeah, we're going to fight about it today. We're going to fight about it. So get ready. Go ahead and get ready. Get your little team ready. You can sit here and talk to me about your little Rocket League. And then we're going to talk about Warhammer Dark. We're going to just have it. We're going to have the fight. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. Welcome. Top of the second hour. Daniel Ash with you.

You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program 340. Channel 347. direct TV also and uh all kinds of good stuff so well I really want to get I need this one so this is the one that you just put in slack and uh this is somebody that uh it's our vice president you put this in slack vice president was talking to the pipe fitters local 537 right and she was explaining collective bargaining to them. She was explaining them to them. Right? That's the best way to put it. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead and listen. Think of the dressing for the word salad. Go ahead.

So collective bargaining is about saying, let the workers have a voice as a collective all together representing each one of them as a group and then go into that negotiation because then you start to equal out the balance in terms of power in a way that the outcome will be fair. That's what collective bargaining is about. That's what worker organizing is about. This is one of my favorite comments I've ever read my life. She should have never quit her job at the Thesaurus factory. So profound. I'm so happy that she explained such a complex word, Kane, meaning it's not simple. So, you know, collective bargaining is about, you know, people doing things together collectively as a collective,

collecting their same positions to negotiate, you know, for a deal, a bargain collectively altogether as a group. She loves the Venn diagrams, that one. How does Saturday in it live, not do, like, you would think she would be in it? Like, what is going on? The fact that they don't do, they don't make fun of her, they're not about comedy. I think your humor sucks when you just can't take the obvious. Like, even if I agree with you, if you do something goofy and stupid, I'm going to make fun of you.

Because I'm an equal opportunity ridicular. And I don't respect people who are not. So if I do something dumb and you don't make fun of me, we can't be friends. If you do something dumb and you don't like it, if I make fun of you for doing it, then we can't be friends. Because life is too short not to laugh at other people. That's just all there is to it. Like Kane, not wanting to play Warhammer, for instance. We're having this.

This is an ongoing fight that we're having. You're describing it as I don't want to, and that's not even, that's not accurate. No, that's accurate. So it is, so you, is it indicative of you not wanting to? No. Or you just, you wanting to, but just not having the time because you're so busy with Rocket League. Yeah. No, I wish I was more busy with Rocket League.

I'd only get a chance to play, you know, Rock League with my son over in Illinois. Once maybe every 10 days or so, it's not very much. So see, like you play Rocket League with him, but then when you're not playing with him, you could squat up, right? I'm just saying. I could, probably. I'll have to carve out some time. time throw it in the calendar i can do it see i could make it happen we could have like a whole team squad

dude like a whole day and then we'll get one into it you said dark tide right yeah yeah yeah and then steve is like i don't even know does steve you don't play really right here he's like the only millennial who's not really into games right oh that i know i mean i i i said this before i grew up in a house full of women so there's no video games in my house grown up be a nerd for once damn it come on nerd out with us i nerd out on all the things it's not video games he's like so straight-laced he's just like yes well uh but no i think it that's one of the it's a it's a great so i'm gonna keep bringing that up constantly until i break you i'm just because it's great fun it's great fun kane you get to you get to go with zombies and you can crush them into meat pulps maybe that's what

i'll do for you collectively you know together as a collective you mean as a group as a group all together, you know, a collective. That's the way it is. And then we can bargain about what level of malice we would like to play, you know. I'm glad you cleared to that because I thought collective bargaining was you like collecting bargains. That's, you know, actually, I'm so glad that you brought that up because, you know, for instance, so my stepdad, right, is the coupon king. So I don't know how it works in some people's homes, but in the home in which I grew up, First, it was me and my mom for a long time, and then when my mom and my stepdad got together, he is, like, very good at couponing and finding the coupons and saving the coupons.

And he would keep them all organized in a letter, organized that he hung on the back of the pantry door, a little pantry door in the kitchen, and all the different coupons. And when he makes a grocery list, parts of the paper, there's invisible borders. And you're not allowed to put any non-dairy item in the dairy section that is not at all marked on the grocery list. It's just not at all marked. And it's just, you know, he writes it out how he goes into the aisles. And he will not, he would not allow my mother to go to the grocery store because he's like, she gets distracted and picks up other things.

And so he's like, you don't get to go. And so, like normally it's just like the thermostat is like the territory, right? The dads, like they take over. No. And this house is also the grocery store shopping. So you had to have a coupon to get it. If you wanted it, there better be a coupon. or you ain't getting it.

You know what, quick question? Coupon or coupon? He says coupon. Who am I to argue with the key? I've heard it though both ways. I have two. My mom says coupon and he's like, that's wrong. Is there a singular way?

That's correct. I don't know. I'm not going to fight with him about it. Everybody else is welcome to take up the issue with Paw Paw. But yeah, it's not going to be me. Just call them paper bargains. Paper bargains that we're collecting collectively. But no, he would, that's what he do.

He would collect the bargains. He would collect the bargains. He would collect the coupons. And he would, you can't, you know, like I remember one time I wanted Captain Crunch. And heaven forbid, I put it in the meat section. And he's like, I just got to get a whole new piece of paper now. No, he got the white out. And he would white it out.

It was a notebook paper, dude. It was like college-rolled notebook paper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got, no, I've got to white. It's got to be perfect. No scratching out because it's confusing and sloppy. And he doesn't like the sloppiness and confusion, right? my kids think he can do no wrong because he's forklift certified i don't know he

drives he operates a forklift and then he got bored in retirement and then wanted to go back to drive more forklift so i don't know but he's like no no this is not how this works you cannot put the cereal where the meat goes i'm like okay oh well just can we get it is there a coupon for it is there a coupon for the cap and crunch i did not have a coupon for the cap and crunch of that particular time, so Dana did not get the Cap and Crunch. Now, when he did find the Cap and Crunch Later with the Crunch Berries, he had a coupon for it, and that was a nice surprise, but that's the house I grew up in. It didn't exist on the store shelves.

He would say the store's out of it if there wasn't a coupon for it. And I know these were lies. And he's like, no, no, the store didn't have any. I'm like, you're serious? The store didn't have any Cap and Crunch. That's a lie. We know this is lies. You just didn't have a coupon.

Not the same thing. but he was a collector of bargains. And he was in the union, but he was a collector of bargains, you could say, like Kamala Harris was explaining. But I just go out, collect bargains. I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got the coupons. All right, so this, a couple of other things here.

Do we want more stupid? Oh, boy. Yeah, let's do more stupid. Audio soundbite 17. This chick. This is the message of Republican. in 2024. Control women's bodies and bomb stuff. They have no other governing philosophy. That's just it. That's it. That's right. That's what we want to do. We're going to control your

bodies and bomb the hell out of stuff. Vote for us. Control and bomb. Man alive. That's like her analysis is what you get from that one drunk friend at the end of the night as the party wanes and everyone else goes home and the lights come up. There's no more alcohol. and it's that one drunk friend who has had enough liquid courage where they think they're an expert in all things political. And they will not shut up. That is, that's Joy Reid's level of political analysis. All these Republicans, they just want to get out there and control women's bodies. Like how?

What do you mean? They want to control the abortions. What? Like they act like Republicans are making women go out there and procreate like bunnies and then telling them, nope, no, no, no portions for you, no. We can't do this group. We're making you do it. We're making it. No one's making anybody doing nothing. We're just saying, you know, be responsibly. You don't have to kill nobody as a form of birth control.

That's all. That's all people are saying. And bombing? What do you mean bombing? Democrats were the ones who were wanting to get us involved in every damn thing. From Hillary Clinton to Libya to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, going down to Venezuela, going down to, I mean, good heavens. They want to get us involved in everything. Every South American election, I use it in their quotes.

good everything. I think the new neocons are Democrats. So what is she talking about? She just says stuff to say it. Control women's bodies. If I could control your bodies, I would shut you up. If I actually could control bodies, you wouldn't be talking because I would have shut up your mouth. That's what would have happened.

They give me way, think it was way more power than we have. You know what, actually, maybe this should be the motto. I want to control your body so I can shut you the hell up. Vote for me. I actually think that that's a winning slogan, right? Maybe not? You disagree? Yeah, I think it's a great slogan. Vote for me and I'll shut them all up. Love that. Okay, where do I sign? Where do I vote? Where can I vote illegally even? Let's make it happen. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I got to immediately start with Pumpkin the Bear. Hanson. I don't even know where this is.

Hanson Police W.Bee's News say that Pumpkin the bear is going to have to be euthanized after killing a goat is that not what bears do

I mean it's a bear bears kill goats right they said the black bear has gotten a taste for livestock killed a goat inside a barn Wednesday night it's the second time pumpkin is attacked livestock

said police although the owner's had an electric fence and reinforced barn doors see if you have to put down the bear then why the hell do I got to carry bear spray

if I'm going into like Yosemite I'm going into a park. Thank you. Thank you. Just saying. The bear got his nickname in September after he was seen snacking on a pumpkin in a residence yard. He's a big giant black bear. They said, unfortunately, he's becoming too comfortable in the area. It's not his fault, and he's found too many food sources. He's going to have to be euthanized. You people are morons. You are the dumbest people. You don't have to euthanize the damn bear. Put him, you know what? Like put him in a zoo. Put him in a zoo or like a nature reserve or relocate him or something like that. a killing he's a big fat black bear yes he killed a goat because that's what bears eat

quit having bears food around him i'm joking about that last part but uh flexible work hours can make your heart 10 years younger that doesn't make any sense to me what i think i don't know i think this is weird they said that flexible hours may reduce the risk of heart disease i think that this has to do with like habits and patterns and behaviors less so with us don't you think so because nobody's stopping you from getting up and taking a little walk around the out nobody's stopping you can do that. I don't know. Some of these studies are weird. Um,

I exploding marijuana infused cider drinks were recalled in Michigan. It's called, I'm looking, I'm really confused by this whole drink because it sounds horrible. Uh, the can is called

Armada. It's Armada Cannabis Company, Cannabis Apple, cider. You don't have to put cannabis on everything. Just like you don't have to put pumpkin, spice and everything, right? You don't need pumpkin spice tires. Your fridge doesn't need Wi-Fi. You don't need cannabis and everything. 15,000 cans of marijuana-infused cider drinks.

That honestly, that sounds horrible. Cider should be not with that flavor in it. They said it's a single batch of Armada cannabis apple cider. They said they've been swelling and bursting. They said they've received, the reports have been from retailers, not from actual consumers. the Keynes in question list January 2nd as an expiration date.

Like, you do not have to put cannabis in every single thing. I think people are going overboard with that, like the pumpkin spice stuff. I really do. I think this is like way, there's way too much. Stop it. You don't need to do all that. Let's see. The nation is at risk of winter blackouts as the power grid remains uncertain or remains under strain.

Yeah, it does remain under strain. This is why you need to get a generator. But more EVs? Yeah, let's have more EVs. A cruise robo taxi dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco. Yeah, see in San Francisco, the cars drag you. It's one of the driverless cars. The vehicle software mischaracterized where the robotaxie initially struck the woman, leading it to make the wrong decision.

I wouldn't even have a damn room buck. I would never get it. I would never do this. Never. Stick with this. We get a lot more in store. So, you know how we roll here on the Dana Show. I don't know how long we can let the illustrious Donnie Hathaway play without getting in trouble.

But, you know, it's December 1st, and I love me some Christmas. And I love Christmas music. Oh, get it, Donnie. Shake a hand. Donnie Hathaway's, this Christmas is one of the songs we got to start it with. Because it is a vibe, it sets the mood, it's happy. Oh, get it. the horns get it in there if you can't listen because the simulcasts shake a hand shake a hand i don't even know if that's what the man's saying but i'll do it i'll do it yeah there you

oh my gosh i heard this song all the time growing up but my stepdad is a huge motown fan huge motown fan and i got into my first concert when i was growing up as a kid was literally all green it's the first concert i ever went to and i was 15 I knew every song, and I was, I'm sure I, you know, stuck out like a sore thumb. And I'm like, why are we the youngest people here? But it was, I mean, I love all of it. And I love Donnie Hathaway's stuff. I remember when, you remember Friday nights?

Friday nights was Blockbuster Video Night. You get to go and you pick a movie. And, you know, I'd get to pick one. And my parents got to pick one. I remember one time they picked James Brown Live. And so I got to know all James Brown stuff. So I grew up 11, you know, all of them. is loving Donnie Hathaway, loving the Supremes,

loving Al Green, loving James Brown, all of it. I don't know. I had a very interesting upbringing. And I heard this song every Christmas. Of course, my stepdad had, he had vinyl. I heard this on vinyl. And he was very particular. He had Donnie Hathaway's album. He had this on, it was on B's.

I don't even remember, but he would play the song. And we'd be decorating the tree, and it would be Bing Crosby, some this, some Elvis, and some Donnie Hathaway. And I mean, it is, it's just, Just like a whole vibe. So we kick off the whole holiday season. A little Donnie Hathaway.

We got a little Bing Crosby. We got a little Palm McCartney and Wings because you got to play that even though my kids, you know, object. It's such a great song. Cain's over here just jamming. You're jamming. Donnie Hathaway is a mood, man. You can't be mad when you're listening to Donnie Hathaway. You're just like, you know what?

Shake a hand. That's right. Steve. Steve, are you familiar with Donnie Hathaway? until you start working on the show. Oh, yeah. See, everybody knows this song. Everybody knows this song. Everybody does. You know Deaelle Warwick doing a little drummer boy?

That's one of the best, too. That's such a great song. Oh, my gosh, the fireside's blazing bright. And they're cailing through the night, y'all. It's Friday, it's December 1st. You guys think I'm joking. I put this video up. I don't think we can play it because it'll probably be like a copyright violation, but you can go to my Instagram page at D.Lash.

And you can find this video. It's this S&L thing that they did. The song was like, I wish it was Christmas today. And it was like a goofy little skit that they did. And it was Jimmy Fallon and some of the other guys, Horatio Sands. And he'd play this little guitar and they would sing. It was kind of goofy. Well, they had the Muppets do it.

And the guy who was doing the Kermit puppet that day was losing his mind. But I'm like, that's me on Christmas, though. I am that Kermit puppet on Christmas. You guys thought I was joking. I'm not. Not joking. So anyway. we have officially kicked it off.

So when you rejoined me on Monday, we're going to have like a whole snowy theme back here. Who knows? We might have like some mounds with some decorated trees on them. We might have some hobby-lobby trees up in here. You don't even know what we're going to have in here. I mean, it's going to be a winter wonderland. Fala la la la la la.

See, that's what you can tell everybody this time of year when you're displeased instead of, you know, bless your heart. Just say deck my halls. You know, all right. But it's officially kicked off. I told Lorraine, I dropped her a message and I said, Donnie Hathaway time and she's probably like, what? What is? She's probably thinking, she's like, she's buried in the Santos congressional stuff. So, speaking, we were talking a little bit about that just a little bit earlier, all the Santos stuff, which I still think is ridiculous.

She just went ahead, go ahead and give up a seat. It's not like we were, you know, we have seats to give in the house. There was a Christmas gift from Republicans to Democrats came. We're just going to go ahead and start giving all the seats. Just give all the seats. High five, all the angels. Just go ahead and give all the seats out. That's all right. Just give all our seats away. So now we're down.

What are we down to? We're down to how many? Four seats, four seat majority. A three-seat majority, I think. I think it's four. Is it four? I think it was five. Now it's a lot less now.

That's for sure. So great job, Republicans. Great job. I mean, there hasn't been a trial yet. A guy hadn't even been convicted, but, you know, okay, Let's just go ahead. We'll just jettison him out. Meanwhile, you got Gold Bar Bob. Gold Bar Bob up there. Who's definitely, I mean, Jamal Bowman. I mean, how many other people? We could sit here and go on and on. All right, a couple of other things I want to make sure that we are touching on as well. Can we, because I got a lot of audio still of this debate. It was really good. Did you guys know that while all this was happening?

Bob the builder was out there. Actually, that's mean. I shouldn't say that. Bob the builder actually fixed stuff. Secretary Mayor New Mom, poop booty juice. He was getting mocked by protesters during a college speech at Michigan State University. They were calling him Petrol Pete

because I guess the alliteration. You know? They were calling him Petrol Pete. But he's, I've got some, the whole thing we haven't heard from

him in a long time. Like we haven't heard from him. You know what would have been smart for the Biden administration to do? They should have come out and been like, remember, you know, how previous Christmases due to lockdown. We had all these problems with transportation and supply chain stuff. Well, now all of this has been solved and we don't

have this. And they could have had, they could have stuck Mayor's Secretary of Pooh-Bootty Juice out there to talk about it. And they haven't. So they sent him up to Michigan State University to try to sell EVs. Is he a car salesman or transposed secretary? I'm like, yeah, I really, I don't know. Like, which is it? I can't figure it out.

I can't figure it out. So he is, apparently, he was speaking up there pushing EVs, which, by the way, I don't think anybody's going to be getting an EV for Christmas. I don't think, yeah, because the demand, nobody wants them. Nobody wants these things, except unless it's that truck. Hold up. What are you going to say, Ken? I was going to say, the weird thing is people are looking for.

for coal in their stockings this year. Yeah, people want to be the bad kid because you get energy. You get fuel in your stocking. When did that become a bad thing? Reliable energy. You get reliable, luscious energy. Oh, yeah, go ahead and give me coal, Santa. Bring it.

Yeah, go ahead, fill my stocking all the way up. Why don't you, big guy? Go ahead, fill it all the way up, right up to the brim. The Tesla Cyberbeast. Did you all watch this video? I mean, I can't remember if I sent it out to you, and I think I did tweet it out. Musk, we made fun of it and it literally looks like a child's drawing.

I mean, I've never seen anything that looks more like a child's drawing in my life. It is apparently also the body of it can withstand 9mm and 45. Yeah. Well, Musk tweeted about that yesterday and everyone else was like, just shoot the glass. Yeah, but you know, you're supposed to hide in the body. I mean, you get what I'm saying. anyway it's the most expensive of their all-wheel and rear wheel drive like the versions of it the cyber beast you have the cyber truck the cyber beast is the most expensive so this i think it's the cyber truck that starts at 61 this one starts at 100 doesn't it the cyber beast it was pulling a 40,000 pound sled against an f-350 on a track they had it run it up against a portion 9-11 and it was towing a portion 9-11 and it was beaten a portion 9-11 it goes from Hold up.

What's the top speeds 130 miles per hour. This thing is 6,800-something pounds. Toing capacity of 11,000 pounds. Designed for all terrains. It will terrify people as it approaches them because they're going to be like, how did this leap off my child's page into the actual meat space in which I exist? It takes 2.6 seconds, 060. Yeah. So that is what had me because I like fast cars.

I love fast cars. I like heavy cars. So I know we're going to get more meat and potatoes in politics here in a moment. So when I had, as my kids got a little older, I had my mom vehicle. And it was making me depressed because they started driving and I was all depressed and stuff. And I'm like, I don't want to drive this big vehicle because it's empty and quiet and it's sad. So I was like, I want something that's loud and fast. And I want to feel like I'm in fear of my life every time I close the door.

And I got a real, I got, you know, I checked all those boxes off. But the first thing I had asked, though, is I wanted to dodge demon. And I don't even think I got the M part out of that. And Chris looked at me and says no. He's like, you're not getting. He's like, that is not happening. I'm like, but why? It checks these boxes.

And he's like, you're going to wrap that around a tree. What's your first? What, don't you shake your head over there? Don't you shake your head? I'm living with the thermostat, okay? I agree with Chris on this one. And he's like, you're going to wrap it around a tree. I'm like, but it goes fast, and he's like, his eyes get bigger.

Like, thank you for making my case for me. Yeah, that's great. So I did get a vehicle that goes fast, but, and it has heavy door, and I'm very pleased with it. But, but yeah, and I was like, I was rolling off all the, he was saying no to all of them. And then, but this one now, because he likes gadgets, he is not as opposed to EVs as I am. I'm not really opposed to EVs. I could, I really don't care how this is taken. I don't care about the whole environmental argument.

I just really don't give a reds backside. I don't care. If it looks cool and it goes fast, I'm into it. You know, like I like it. And it's also kind of a gadget. But this thing is weird. I feel like you would have to take a class to use it, right? It's like if a DeLorean was poorly drawn and also a truck, it would be this, right?

Like the back of it looks like a damn barbecue grill. Like, Kane, you could roast your meat in that. It's weird. The way it all lifts up, I don't know. It's just kind of weird to me. I don't like modernity. I am a full on maximalist traditionally. hardcore.

But there is something to be said. Again, it goes, it's a giant vehicle that goes, you know, 2.6 seconds, zero to 60. So that means, you know, your jowls are going to fly back to the seat of, you know, the vehicle as you take off. I kind of like that, right? It's just a couple of weapons short of an urban assault vehicle. Yeah. I mean, it's bulletproof. And they're like, look, you can, you can raise up the little, what is that, like a sun-powered thing?

Like a solar thing? It's a solar panel. To charge while you're... My only objection to EVs is how much of it has to be sourced in China. How much of the materials have to be sourced in China? That's my only objection. I don't care about the environment and all that. You know why?

Because gas and coal, it's like way better. Our extraction's cleaner. It's just so much better. But I do like, you know, I have options. I don't like being gas lit into thinking that it's better for the environment because nobody cares. But Musk is like, yeah, the doors were bulletproofed, 45 and 9 millimeter. He had a video in Austin. they did this whole thing where they were demonstrating it and they went to the track and they showed this.

So it starts at 99.9. 845 horsepower trimotor. 0 to 60 and 2.6. Sub 11 second quarter mile. Quiet as a mouse. That's the terrifying thing. You don't hear this thing rolling up on you. Which would be good in a zombie apocalypse.

Because, you know, in my. expertise, you know, the zombies are attracted by the noise, so I'm just saying. But they show you, like, camping with it. It shows all these people taking this thing out to camp, you know, camp with it. It would be kind of interesting. It's very, it's a brutalist design. It really is. It's a very brutalist looking design, for sure. And I feel like you could cut your eye open on the edges. It's not very child friendly. But, I mean, I like, I like, it goes fast. It's, it's, it's, powerful. I just wonder how many, what do you think the battery is like in this thing? How what, to replace it, it'd be more than the damn truck.

It would have to be hefty. Oh, jeez. It's probably three quarters of the weight right there. All right, we got more in store because coming up, we got Florida Maine on the way, right? Also, some other hits from the debate. We're also going to get into how Dems are apparently caving. Biden's facing mutiny over Israel and their defense of self against Hamas's attack. And we're going to get into all of that stuff as well. And this story, we talked about it once, this teacher who was almost beaten to death by this student, the mother of the student is pleading for mercy. She doesn't want her son to go. Oh my gosh, we've got to talk about this.

It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. Colorful underwear, people stealing wine and an explosive smart toilet. That's what we have on deck today. Yeah, I know, all these things. So a robbery suspect, police were able to catch him because of his very colorful underwear. A pair of multicolored briefs that peaked out above his trousers helped police arrest him a year later. This is what the Fed said in New York, the Associated Press.

It happened at a tobacco shop in Queens. Three masked men got out of a Mazdaq, entered the store according to the federal complaint. Two of the men, they pointed their guns at the employees and customers, is the third rob the cash register but they spotted very colorful briefs in a large letter r in white uh in the year 1990 in yellow and so a tipster passed along the instagram handle of the suspect with the colorful underwear and they and they found them they were selling they had sold the merchandise at another queen's location uh and so they uh yeah they they were able to get him because of his britches because he's stupid yeah oh man now i don't know i watched this south park episode

where they had the Japanese toilets and I was like, that looks so cool and they're really kind of, I mean, they're very interesting. This smart toilet apparently exploded while someone was using it. Not because someone was using it.

This man barely managed to get off his smart toilet with an intact backside after smoke started coming out of the toilet bowl and the entire thing burst into flames. The incident occurred on November 10th. The man was using the toilet. At first there was a smell of smoke. The plumes of white smoke started

billowing from the bull. It's like a witch's cauldron. And finally, just as the man got up from the toilet, it burst into flames. He took photos. He didn't even have time to put his shorts on, but he did take photos. It is pretty wild. It was like all lit up. I mean, it literally looked like a Halloween decoration. Now, they think it was a short circuit that sparked the fire. And they, they didn't actually say what make this was. I kind of would like to know what make it was. But I mean, it apparently, I mean, it, it, there was this, I guess it wasn't made properly or something, but it blew up. But that's, that's kind of fascinating. That, I'm just saying.

Also, let's see here. Oh, here's the one I wanted. A. So I got two wine stories. There's one guy who stole, I guess he was going to have a party. He walked out of a Publix in Florida with 12 bottles of wine. Yeah. Yeah.

I love how this Publix is on Fiddlesticks Boulevard. in Fort Myers. God love you, Fort Myers. Tampa, they're looking for they, they couldn't catch him. How do you not catch a guy who steals 12 bottles of wine? How do you carry 12 bottles of wine? No joke, right? They're like, if anybody sees him, call crime stoppers, what? He entered a Publix and literally

walked right out with 12 bottles of wine. So you could do it like that, or you could do it like this chick. A Florida woman got mad because she demanded that a couple buy her wine. And then she took a wine bottle and allegedly used it as a weapon to hit a woman on the head and knocked her boyfriend out cold. Sanford, Florida, Angelie Glenn, was a rested Thursday after a couple, she was demeaning the couple, pay for her bottle of wine at a gas

station. She said that Glenn placed her bottle of wine on the counter with her order and they didn't want to pay for it. She got mad, threatened them. So she's in custom. Of course, that's not how you do it. Two wine on the stairs. Stick with us. One hour on the way. Along with most of campus sought refuge in our rooms. As classmates and professors chanted proudly for the genocide of Jews while igniting smoke bombs and defacing school property. The neighboring university's president immediately released a statement, describing this as a brazen display of anti-Semitism. He went on saying, silence in the face of last night's demonstration of anti-Semitism and hate near our doorstep is not an option for me. Well, the doorstep

of the neighboring university is in fact Penn. And in fact, Penn's President did choose silence. The neighboring university's president swiftly denounced the incident, and yet our president cannot. Because the glorious October 7th, and you're a dirty little Jew, you deserve to die, or words said not by Hamas, but by my classmates and professors. And because despite all of this, I am adamant and hopeful that we will not accept, least of all embrace this horrific new normal on college campuses today. can't even believe it's a new normal. This is just wild. And this is happening so often, so on so many college campuses. It's at the point where it's beyond the point of having to be addressed. Welcome

back to the program. Top of this third hour to you. Dana, last year with you, you can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program. You can watch a simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, channel 347 direct TV as well. How does it get like this? How does it get like this? when I was in college, there was nothing like that on college campus. And I was in college. I graduated in the late 90s, mid to late 90s. I was in college going up to the aughts. And it was not like that on my college campus at all.

There, no one ever would have allowed anybody to live in fear of anybody else. I just remember because I, because I added. our paper, our school paper. And I remember when in fall in September, when everybody's back on campus, they had the, what is it? It was in the quad where all of the groups and everybody, they would have like a day, like it was like a two-day event where students could walk through the quad and they could see all the groups and figure out what they wanted to join, et cetera, et cetera.

Every group got along. It was the opposite of PC. the movie with Jeremy Piven, which I did find streaming. I shared that link with Lorraine, by the way, who's handling the YouTube discussion. And it's because you can't stream it. You can't find it anywhere. But it everybody got along. Like you had, I don't remember what one group. There was one group that, I mean, all the groups got along. There was a Jewish group that got along with the Muslim students group. And you could learn, like that's where I learned, al-A-Lamalaka, all that. Everybody got along. Everybody got along. Literally everybody got along.

This is new where everybody has been conditioned to hate each other. It's all about destabilization. I was telling Kane when I was in elementary school, and I just don't realize this. We learned Hanukkah songs, right along with Christmas songs. Now, there were more Christmas songs that we learned. Of course, there were a lot of Christmas songs written by Jewish people. but we sang as part of our Christmas recital we sang Hanukkah songs and nobody ever thought any differently. The only thing that that kind of rub me the wrong way was I'm like you get eight days of presents. That seems like it's not fair. And one of my opinion and I were talking about this because our friends who were Jewish were saying, well, they're like little things. Yeah, but you get eight days of them.

I had a friend who got a slap slap bracelet one day. Remember the slap bracelets? Were those actually made of measuring tape? Someone told me we were actually made a measuring tape, but you'd slap them right on your wrist. Anyway, and I can't remember. I don't remember what one of the songs, what it was called, but it was

I went Hanako, Hanako, Hanuko, come light, the menorah, we'll celebrate the season by dancing the H-O-R-A, I think it was, eight days of joy on this holiday every day for eight days children will play I mean I remember all of I remember all of these songs

and I think that's they're talking about a dance it's a specific dance but I don't know what the dance is we learn that song I learned that song in school I still remember it now we sing it every year

for our Christmas recital that was all that was a part of our for our Christmas recital and then we sang the dreidel song and then there's another one that we sang

but that nobody bad an eye. Like nobody thought anything differently of it. You know, nobody, nobody had to send a permission slip. Everything was treated like, oh, these happened at the same time. There was no one has to compete with the other. There was no you, there's no animosity, nothing like that. It's just how it was. And nobody had a problem with doing all of it. It was fun. We had our big Christmas recital and they had candy and punch at it. It was, you know, it was nice. Now everything's sucks because everybody made it so they made it miserable that's the thing that bums me out like

i feel like my kids will never know how cool it used to be because everything just blows what a horrible time what a horrible time to come of age everything is horrible and everything you do is forever documented by the matrix of social media and everybody's parents let them on social media they just allow them to be on it my kids were not allowed to be on it my kids were not allowed to to be on social media. Now that they're in college, I think one of them has, I think one of them does like Snapchat, but they don't really get on it and do, they don't have Twitter and they don't have Facebook and they don't do any, they don't get on it.

I think that also contributes to this too because I feel like it allows stupidity to fly more freely unfiltered. But it wouldn't be a problem if people were educated. But see, here's the multi-prong effect of this cultural warfare. You have, I think, universities making people dumber. I told you the other day, a very good friend of mine, his name is Van, and he has a website called Bloggodiadict, to play on autodietism.

And he wrote, he had a very fantastic deep dive on the importance of grammar and how it's not people being like grammar nerds and things like that. It's, you know, we used to be able to, we had so many choices to so eloquently and articulately express ourselves and to assert a very friendly disagreement without running to the limit of offending someone.

And now it's like everybody's been made so purposefully stupid and our language has been so dumbed down that we can't even express disagreement and then emotions fly and everyone takes everything personally and it's just horrific. And so I thought that was really smart. And then how in colleges and universities today honest debate is not fostered

and it's not protected and it's not. defended. Where are the people coming out and saying, no, no, no, absolutely not. If you cannot, if you're not smart enough to share your ideology, talk about your ideology, hear other ideas, and then defend your principles soundly while being civil and courteous. You are too stupid for debate. Sit down. Where are the people who are enforcing that at these learning institutions? That would have never have flown when I was in school. Never would have flown. I mean, I, I, I read this article the other day where they were talking about parents with, you know, make sure your child's opinion may, you know, flatter them and let them know that they are heard.

No, no, no. We're not doing that. You'll be heard if your opinion's not stupid. How about that? You don't have a right to be heard. This whole, my truth, you don't have a right to that. There are so many people that have opinions all competing for shelf space in the consciousness of this society. you do not have the right to be heard.

You have the privilege to be heard. You have the right to say whatever you want. You don't have the right for someone else to hear it. That's a privilege. So craft your message accordingly and earn it. That's what this means. But no one's told that because they're afraid to hurt someone's feelings. They're afraid that someone will be made to feel inadequate.

And honestly, if your opinion is bad, you should be made to feel inadequate so that you improve yourself. But heaven forbid, people don't want to improve themselves because they look at that as though it's an offense. Oh my gosh, you're telling me that I'm imperfect. Yes, we all are. Get over it. Instead, what we do is we cater to this self-aggrandizement. No, you're perfect as is. There's no reason to improve anything. You're perfect. Your opinions are perfect. No, they're not. Most people's opinions are horrible. I mean, mine are brilliant, but that goes beyond saying, you know. I'm slightly kidding. Not really. But that's, That's, I think, part of the problem with this.

And you're seeing this play out now in universities everywhere. Everywhere. My mom, who was a very harsh parent, thought I was a harsh parent. Because I just never got into all the wokeery parent stuff. I'm like, if you suck, I'm going to tell you you suck. If I don't think that's where your skill set is, I'm going to tell you this is not where your skill set is. I'm not doing my job as a parent by catering to the lowest common denominator of your

abilities. That's the truth of the matter. That's not why God put me here. I do you no favors by not helping to illuminate your path of purposefulness. I'm not helping you. But parents today, and we're seeing this now, that's part of the problem. Now you have students' minds that are just completely seated and ready for corruption. And that's just it.

We send them to these corruption factories without the ability to fight against it. it used to not be that it used to not be where you should have to fear the is somebody making an impression on your child's mind my youngest son uh my who's in college now i do not worry about this child at all in terms of ideology i worry about everybody else this his resoluteness i am not even remotely exaggerating i am not at all he is the the absolute rock against which all of this breaks. He is so resolute and so strong in his principles and his position and his faith and all of that, nothing, it just doesn't get to him.

And he's secure enough in knowing why he believes what he believes that he doesn't feel the need to get nasty. He doesn't need to get nasty. Now, he will match your energy, but he doesn't feel the need to get nasty. He is not the peacemaker like my older son is. But he's, I don't worry about, I don't worry about his abilities or principles being compromised. In fact,

every time he sees an instance like that, he becomes more resolute. And that's the kind of confidence you should have when you send your kids out. And I'm not saying, I don't, honestly, if you asked me, what did you do? I don't know. It was the grace of God that he, I didn't ruin him.

I don't know. Like we raised them to, you know, we did the best of our ability. and God fix all the errors, I guess. I don't know all of our mistakes. I'm like, please just don't let us break this child. I don't know what we did, but whatever did, it worked.

And I don't have to worry about him. I don't, I mean, he knows his own mind. He knows his own mind incredibly well. And he's got a great group of friends that are very similar. You should not feel worried about sending your kid off out of your home. Remember what they do not learn in your home, they will learn out in the world. The world will teach them. And now you've been told that you're a helicopter parent.

And there is, I get it. There's a difference between hovering and going too far. But there's also a difference in being engaged. I hate it when colleges are like, oh, don't talk to your kids for the first month. Oh, hell, no, I don't think so. H-A-I-L. That's not how Mama Dana plays it. And I have no problem in telling my kids, this isn't appropriate.

That's appropriate. This is not acceptable, et cetera, et cetera. They've grown up with it. But now it's like you're supposed to entertain every, even the, everything that you're, you're supposed to entertain it and somehow accommodate it and give them room to be who they are, et cetera. Well, the part of the parent's job is to also instruct your child. I mean, you were literally called by that in scripture.

So I don't know why a lot of people are thinking that they have to bend a knee to the world and a lot of the world to shape their kid over them. That's what this is all about. They're not saying that, oh, let your kid shape themselves. They're the world saying, let us shape your kid for you. And like I said, I think all of that plays into the psychology of what we're seeing on these campuses now because you have all these kids that have been primed. They have been primed for this corruption, this intellectual corruption. And that's what's taking place.

And now we have a quasi-1930s happening again on college campuses around the country. It's sickening. And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So Alaska Airlines and Hawaii Airlines are going to combine and expand choices for people. Yay, I don't care. Self-checkouts are going to be scrapped at Walmart, Costco, and Wegmans. The hell's a Wegman?

Is that a British? Isn't that a British thing, Wegmans? No? I don't know what it is. It sounds like it's a British thing. Oh, it's going to pop over Wegmans. Steve, tell me about Wegmans. It's a thing.

So it's like their schnucks, Kane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So self-checkouts at big retailers like Walmart. in Costco. They are going to make them a thing of the past and the reason why is because of crime. They said that crime is killing self-checkouts. They said that even food retailers are having issues with us. That some prefer not, I mean, I don't mind it. I don't mind the self-checkout except when it's like, please put the item in the bag. And I'm like, I did. Please put the item in the

bag. I put it in the bag. That's the problem I have. But they said that some people, the tech mishaps, they don't like having to bag things themselves. I would never go with like a bunch of items to self-checkout because I get stressed when I bag things because I play too much Tetris as a child and I get very stressed out. But it is crime.

Crime's driving that. I mean it's let's see here. Ooh, a Akron police arrested guy who was shot over potato chips. Do we have an identification on the chips? Is it like ruffles?

is it because otherwise I don't care about this story? Yeah, I mean, that's important to us. So Al Gore says something that you need to hear just so we can laugh about it. Stay with us. So we caught a possum in our attic. This is news and important to me. I need a break from everything. Okay.

So we caught a, I have, oh gosh, this is, we're not cutting any of this. Just don't let you know, okay, because this will be used against me for forever. I have a weird history with possums. I have a weird history with a lot of wildlife. All right. So first off, I like the possums now because I understand them. I feel like we get, this is literally this possum that Juan is going to show in the cage literally just came out of our attic.

This is a 30 minutes old photo. That's a big little dude. Look at his little hands, his wee little hands. There's like, he's so funny. I don't even know him. And I'm like, we're BFF. I feel like snow white, right? Like, you think an animal is cute, and all of a sudden you think you can talk to birds and stuff.

I don't know. But I, so we caught this thing in our attic, and I mean, I don't know anything about possums, other than they eat ticks and stuff I hate. And they kind of get a bad rap, right? Unless they got the rabies, they're generally, you know, pretty easygoing little dudes. You know what I mean? Now, I didn't always think this way. I'm going to come back to how can I tame this thing and make it my friend. So let me just tell you this story.

You're going to judge me and that's okay. You know, it's fine. So in our old house, when we first moved here, we came across. We had like two days to get a house. I didn't want to rent because property prices go up so fast. And I was like, I'll be able to get some equity. So we got this house that literally backed up to this cutting ranch, like tons of eagridge. and I used to look out the back window

and pretend all the horses were mine. And there were a lot of coyotes, right? We would hear the yips of the coyotes at night. I actually thought it was calming and then, you know, the coyotes started eating stuff. Right? First, it was this, what's the bird? It's not a pheasant. What is it? No, it's the thing that when it makes its bird noise,

it sounds like a woman being attacked. Oh, the guinea? Guinea. Oh, my gosh. Like, those things are, like, guineas and people, Cox are built our nature's alarms. So we'd have this guinea that would run around the neighborhood and it would go, like that's the sound it makes. Like it just does that. And I tried to lure it. I wanted to keep it like in my fenced area as like an alarm. And I tried to, I didn't have like any cornmeal or whatever the hell those things eat. So I just had Doritos. And I was taking my Doritos and I was

trying to lure it. It didn't work. And my neighbor said I was nuts. So anyway, our neighbor, who also backed up to the cutting ranch, they had this a little floof dog. I don't know what it was. It was a, I can't pronounce it. B-Shon-Freece, don't correct me. The chat will be like, Dana, it's Bichon, whatever. The bitch and freeze, whatever that poodle is, that thing.

The white, fluffy thing. They had one of those, right? And they were getting ready to take this dog with them, and they were going to go to the lake. Something like that. It was in the morning. next thing we know all hell's breaking loose because they let the dog outside in their fenced yard the wife went back in just to get her coffee and in the time that she went back in to get her coffee

coyotes dug under their fence grabbed their little fluff dog and took it up and ate it all ate it all up I'm like oh my gosh it was crazy right there everybody was nuts and we'd see coyotes walk it I mean he's nuts so I had this in my mind one evening and it's all on our security camera video which will never see the light a day. It's never going to happen. Because the video shows, you know, I'm writing something. We had just finished dinner. I got my laptop in my lap and my son went outside with our dogs. We had two French bulldogs at the time. Rocco and Louis. He went outside with them because, yeah, we were just a little nervous because, you know, coyote had just eaten a dog and we're like, maybe go out and scare the coyotes off. The next thing I know, I hear, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I heard,

Louis going crazy. Louis always alerts to everything, but it was unusual to also hear Rocko bark. Rocco sounds like a Rottweiler when he barks. He's very deceiving. And I Duke boided over the couch and Chris followed me. You've seen the video, right? Kane's dying because he's seen it. Duke boyed over the couch and we go outside and my oldest son is like holding off Louis and Rocco's being real chill. And the backyard was pitch black. We didn't have any lights on. in the back. There was the full moon out, almost a full moon. And I saw the moonlight hit like a sliver of fur and it looked gray and matted. And now just please understand what I had just dealt with that day. Coyotes just ate our neighbor's dog, right? So my first thought is Coyote. And my, I'm going to

protect my dogs, right? I'm going to protect my dogs, my kid. I'm going to protect my family. so everything was cool and we're like louis just don't go sideways louis went sideways as i thought it like he immediately was like i'm going to you know to death and just charged so i'm like well hell here we go into the breach and i went with him because that's what i do i don't know i'm like i'll ask questions later and i just ran right you know i launched myself into a dark corner of the yard where the light would not touch except for the sliver of moonlight that illuminated just the brief brief sight of gray matted and fur which I had convinced in my mind was a coyote, maybe a werewolf, who the hell knows? It was like this time last year.

It was right around Halloween, Kane. I kid you not. So I launched myself into this dark corner of the yard. And I can hear Louis fighting with something. So I'm like, I'm just going to feel for stuff that doesn't feel like Louie and I'm going to start wailing. Man, that's what I'm going to do. Like, it was, you know, it was like I invoked my Ozark brawl power. You know, I immediately like kicked it into gear.

And then I could hear Chris yelling at me to stop. And I was just slinging stuff around, punching stuff. And rolling around and the guy had Louie in my arm, Louie's going crazy. I'm punching something with my hand. And I don't know what it looked like. Positive our neighbors thought, what the hell are these people doing now? And then the next thing I knew, I heard somebody go,

it's a possum. And then my husband, who has not jumped into the fray? and is standing there looking at me very just like again giving me the look of a dad who just realized his son couldn't catch a football staring at me and he's like it's what dogs do Dana he's like yelling at me I realized I literally was fighting with a possum I think I was doing it more than Louis was at that point

and at some point it decided to pretend that it was dead and I just kept going because it was pitch dark and this all happened like in the span of 60 seconds. And then I felt real bad because I was like, oh, I punched it to death. Wait a minute, no, it's just plain dead. And then Louis got it and ran

and that was a whole other thing. So long story short, I was dirty. Do you know that they smell like armpits? They are so stinky. It's like a bum that washed himself with a dirty armpit. I don't know how to describe it. It's so nasty.

And I could not get the smell off my hands and my arms. I had, I was like lemons, the steel soap bar for onions, like, whatever. It was so bad. So anyway, that, um, then Chris made me feel real bad about it. He's like, well, it says here on the internet, that these things eat ticks and they don't get rabies and they actually kill all the stuff you hate and you're out there fighting with it. I was like, in my defense, I thought that it was a coyote or werewolf. It was dark. It's around Halloween. I don't know. So, I know. Like I, my family ate these damn things. I don't know. Like, I'm just, I'm like, I couldn't see. It was dark. So anyway, now fast forward, I find them that, I find that we're,

we're rather allies, right? The possums and I. Now someone's like, you're not going to think that if you have chickens. Well, I don't have chickens. So, but I feel, you know, like we could be friends if they weren't so weird and didn't fall over and hiss all the time, although I do that too. But I like their little hands, paws, whatever the hell they are, those little things. And, you know, they're generally useful. Weird as all get out. Like, it's, it's like what an alien thought an animal on earth might look like and pieced it together, right? And glued some fur on it. That's what they look like. They're weird looking. But, um, so anyway, there's one in our attic. And we got it in this cage. And I'm just looking at the little dude. He's got little snowman eyes. He's

awfully adorable. I feel, you know, you know, I, they get a bad rap. I mean, I'm just saying, like, Are you misgendering this? Hell, I don't know. They all look like he's. Unless they come with like the Warner Brothers eyelashes and a bow, I'm just going to assume, right? Or babies hanging up? Yeah, unless there's some babies on teets, I don't see any. I know they got a little pouch.

They are technically marsupials, I believe. So anyway, I don't know. I just feel like, you know, if someone wanted to tame one as like a pet, definitely not talking about myself. If they wanted to tame it for a pet, I mean, maybe, you know, is there, someone said, you got to do it from the time that they're babies. We're not killing the thing. Of course. I mean, we're going to release it somewhere by a lake. And I'm like, great, by a lake where there's gaiters. Great. He's going to get eaten by a damn gator. So, I don't know. But I'm just saying, I'm like totally not asking for myself.

Twitter's going nuts because I asked the question. And, yeah, they said that they're big rats and bigger tails kill them. I'm not killing it because they eat ticks and stuff I hate. They're there. Somebody said they're the cleanup crew. Aren't they like nature's janitors? They're like little nature janitors. I'm not going to kill nature's janitor. Let him know. Let him go. I just don't want him up on my attic.

Like stay out of my stuff, right? You know, like don't be getting up in my attic. I don't need you messing around my Christmas decorations, okay? I mean, we're getting ready to put those out for Jesus' birthday. I don't need you being around them. So I'm just, you know, I don't know where it. I would like to keep him. You know, he could put a little harness on him.

You know, he'd be like a little pet. You know, I can't get him near rod. Because Rocco, even though he's got his issues. Anyway, long story short, apparently everybody's torn. They're like, don't do it. And then yes, do it. And then others are like, you can't unless they're like babies.

They're wild at this point, which I agree. It's probably true. But I'm just, you know. So anyway, that's what's going on my life with the big, the possums and all that came. So I don't know. I mean, I just feel like, you know, I guess, you know, I don't have any ticks or anything on my property.

so I guess that's, you know, he's been helping out. Right. So. I know what you could do. I mean, can you, I know that you'd be dedicated to training him if you thought you could. But I don't want you to think you can. Why? Because you can't.

Someone said that chicken also, chickens also eat ticks and turns them into chicken. Really? Yeah. Nice. I just don't know if I like to eat tick-made chicken. See what I'm saying? Chicken? Yeah.

Somebody said they had a whole family of possums that they feed every day and they're sweet and gentle. Oh, see, look at that. Anyway, I just, you know, so I'm just throwing it out there. I just think that, yeah, I know they probably carry some nasty stuff, but anyway, so I'm just thinking about it. Chris has already said no, so I'd have to literally sneak it into the house to make this happen. Pretty sure I can't hide a possum. Sneak it in. I mean, if you have some suggestions on how I may do that, I mean, I'm all ears.

But, you know, if you're cold, they're cold, right? How well would that go? Can you hear? Anyway, so, yeah, if you got any advice, I'm open to hearing it. I mean, I do want one as a pet. I think it'd be neat. Somebody said they eat cat food. No, you're going to eat steak like the rest of us.

We don't do cat stuff up in this house, okay? We don't do cat. I'm allergic to cat. We don't do cat food. Ooh, that's the other thing. I wonder if I'd be allergic to possums. Oh, by the way, possums never get rabid from what I understand. Like, they don't get rabid.

I heard they, oh, they do. don't because the internet's never wrong as you know. Right. Like if you're, if you got a sniffle and you Google it, you know, you got AIDS. Cancer.

I mean, you're, you're going to die. It's Ebola AIDS, like a whole new kind. Just saying, some of the, oh my gosh, everybody needs a possum.

It could be my Christmas possum. I'm just saying. So the, we've been going over some of the latest. We had the debate recap. someone who's asking me, who do you think won the debate? I think not because they overpowered them with energy, but just because they kept it chill.

I think I think DeSantis took the debate, and it's not just because I like him. I think that Haley, even though I'm not a fan of her foreign policy in the slightest, I think she performed well. Tim Scott was there. And also Chris Christie, who's still on his I hate Trump campaign. And then Vivek did not do it.

well because he came off as to try hard and just unnecessarily mean and I think people didn't like that. So that's how I thought that's how I thought it went down. It went down like that. It's real. Kane, do your voice. For what we used to. That's what she sounds like, that lady from the plane. That's exactly. What was that something? I didn't even remember what were they, was she protesting on? I couldn't stop laughing long enough. Oh, ceasefire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She wanted to that Mickey Mouse character wanted a ceasefire. That's what it sounded like.

I'm a ceasefire, okay? That's exactly what it sounds like. Like the South Parks, South Parks Mickey. Yeah. So, there you have it. Tomorrow's Friday. Yeah, Friday, tomorrow. And we're going to talk more about what Republicans need to do going into

24. Because I'm telling you, you the elections, I'm telling you right now, the elections that happened. I'm never going to stop. It's going on the seventh. I think it portends something kind of bad coming up in 24 if we don't get a handle on it. So we're going to talk about that tomorrow. All right, Kane, day in stupidity. All right.

What a weird show, man. It is our vice president, Kamala Harris. I thought I'd set this up, but let's just play it. You can hear it. Listen to this. room and then ask who's not in the room and then figure out how to bring them in. What? And often, and all of the leaders here know, often is not just because you might leave the door open.

What? That's not enough. You got to go out to where folks are, literally, where they are, be it where they are geographically or where they are in terms of what they're bringing in terms of life experience to the moment. What? To be able to connect with them? What is she saying? What?

Yeah, that does it for us today, folks. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow, Friday. Have a great night. Back with you then.